Art Institute of Chicago Acquires Duchamp's Bottle Rack
The Art Institute of Chicago announced today a collection-changing acquisition of Marcel Duchamp's boundary breaking readymadeBottle Rack (1914/59). Signed by Duchamp in 1960 for its owner-a young Robert Rauschenberg-this ever-provocative and still-astonishing work has a deep connection to two significant artists who radically challenged and redefined our notions of 'art' and changed the course of art history. Acquired from the internationally respected Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, through Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Duchamp's Bottle Rack will go on view today, February 13, 2018, in the Art Institute's Gallery 395B, contextualized within the museum's exceptional galleries of modern art.